Nikolai Bulganin

Nikolai Bulganin (30 May 1895-24 February 1975) was Premier of the Soviet Union from 8 February 1955 to 27 March 1958, succeeding Georgy Malenkov and preceding Nikita Khrushchev.

Biography
Nikolai Bulgani was born in Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire on 30 May 1895, and he served in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I and joined the Bolsheviks at the time of the Russian Revolution in 1917. He was a member of the Cheka during the Russian Civil War, and he was chairman of the Moscow City Soviet from 1931 to 1937 and Deputy Prime Minister in 1938. He held a number of high political offices in the Red Army during World War II, and he became Deputy Defense Minister in 1944, Defense Minister in 1947, and Deputy Prime Minister in 1949. Bulganin faithfully executed Joseph Stalin's wishes during these years, but he became Premier under Nikita Khrushchev in 1955. He fell from grace in 1957 due to his close links with the anti-party opposition to Khrushchev under Vyacheslav Molotov and Georgy Malenkov, and he was dismissed from the Presidium in 1958. He went on to work for the Stavropol Economic Council, and he retired in 1960. Bulganin died in 1975.